Hello, I'm having a look to a few orphaned packages, including cgi-scripts.
There are two bugs. Bug #47708 about mailto.pl which is something easy to address. By the way, with a little work, this perl script is the only thing that is worth in the package. Actually, 75% of the scripts seem to be here just to exaggerate the size of the package : archie | fortune | finger | uptime | calendar | date are basic Bourne Shell scripts invoking a command ! test-cgi and nph-test-cgi are, really, the same script ( two lines of header is the difference). wais.pl seems useless. Plus, there are pieces of c programs in /usr/doc/cgi-scripts ( I'm still on Slink :-^), that seem of some use, but the programs are not compiled at installation time, and there is absolutely no documentation. My question is : is it allowed to *heavily* modify a package ( keep --- and modify --- mailto.pl, look of the c programs), remove almost everything else, and add new stuff ( like a ldate ( locale date) c program using the strftime() function with as an argument ll_LL), new Perl scripts, etc... And this would address the second bug #47709 : scripts out of age. But this would be something else, and I'm not quite sure that cgi-scripts would be a very good name ( cgi-programs would be better). Thank you for your advice. -- Thierry LARONDE [EMAIL PROTECTED] website : http://www.polynum.com
